Churn.



GHURN.

4APPLlOATION FILED MAY 6, 1914.

C. B. CROFFORD.

@M n@ @m @w Ew CHRLES JBOHN CROFJFORD, 0F BINGMTON, TENNESSEE.

CHUM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led May 6, 15914.l Serial No. 836,741.

"To all lwhom it may concern:

vention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a. partof this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in churns and especially in the provision of a particular form of construction of churn body whereby with its use in connection with a dasher a powerful agitation of the cream may be obtamedand affording means whereby cream may be churned in the least possible time.

My invention comprises more specifically a churn body having aV series of vertical concaved inner surfaces at the corners thereof and affording means' whereby the eddies may be produced and at the same time dispensing with the usual angular corners which are difficult to cleanse and consequently insanitary.

The present invention comprises various details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and then specificallyl defined in the appended claim. Y

ll illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical central sectional view through a churn made in accordance with my invention, and lFig. 2 is a cross-sec tional view through the body 'portion thereof.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designatestho body of a. churn which has double concaved surfaces, designated respectively by letters D, formed at each corner of thebody of the churn, the inner marginal edges of said surfaces terminating in a ridge E. The churn body is provided with a suitable top B in which is journaled the dasher shaft F having wings l-I which may be of any improved construction4 which may be found best to operate in connection with the churn body. Said dasher shaft, which is journaled in the member K, is providedwith a beveled pinion l which is in mesh with a simi- Patentedl Marta, iml.

lar pinion .L fixed to the horizontally disposed shaft O mounted in suitable bearings in the standards 0f upon the ltop of the churn and a suitable ily wheel Q is also fixed to the shaft O and has a handle Qf for rotating the same.

The operation of my churn will be readily understood and is as follows By the rotary movement of the dasher, the wings thereof will cause a whirling agitation to the cream within the body portion and, as it comes in contact with the concaved surfaces, a violent agitation of the cream Will be caused, making itl possible to churn the cream in a minimum length of time. By reason of the double 4concaved surfaces, it will be noted that the same effect upon the agitation of the cream may be produced by rotating the dasher in either direction.

What l claim to be new is A churn comprising a body portion having opposite parallel sides with double concaved portions at each corner, the adjacent edges of the concaved portions terminating CHARLES Bonn cnorroan.

Witnesses:

SAM. E. JOHNSON, MYRTLE SLAUGHTER. 

